If you were planning on picking up an HP TouchPad tablet after the recent price drops, well, you might want to mull things over. HP has announced that they’ll be discontinuing operations for their webOS hardware – TouchPad and webOS phone included. Why? In a nutshell, it’s no secret that webOS didn’t really make any dent in a market dominated by iOS and Android devices, and when you consider that webOS trails the rest of the players (BlackBerry OS, Symbian and Windows Phone) in market share… let’s just say they just reached the breaking point of the “make or break” meter.
So what’s going to happen to the webOS software platform? They’re looking to sell it. It’s possible for webOS to turn up in Google’s hardware partners, (like HTC, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson), who may or may not be comfortable with Google’s acquisition of Motorola.
HP has also confirmed that they’re looking to spin off their Personal Systems Group in the wake of the non-Windows tablet’s effect on PC sales.
Tags: HP, HP TouchPad, Tablets, webOS
